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March 13, 2020
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, March 13, 2020
“When people focus on their natural strengths in work, they’re jumpstarting their potential to be among the best in their field.” – Lee Ellis
Lee’s new book, Leadership Behavior DNA, helps your pinpoint your specifics for work and leadership – purchase your copy
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March 12, 2020
How Successful Leaders Manage Public Stress
Based on current news and headlines, it’s more important than ever for honorable leaders to step up and help manage the stress of others in your influence. Fellow colleague and consultant, Mary Kelly, offer 6 tips to manage stress.
Check them out on her website and post your experience too – thank you
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March 11, 2020
2 Best Ways to Develop Your Strengths
Here’s a quick checklist on knowing your strengths and then the 2 best way to develop them – Let’s focus on yourself first:
Do you know your best talents?
Do you know what roles they fit the best?
How did you discover that?
Was it through trial and error?
Did you get confirmation through a behavioral assessment?
Did you learn about your talents through the affirmation and feedback from others?
All are important and valid ways of talent discovery. Trial and error is a good way to learn, but it can also be slow and painful. Let’s look at the two best way to determine your natural talents (strengths): assessment and insights from others.
Assessments. There are many kinds of assessments, but the assessment that we use in personal and team training compares your score to a standardized score to predict your best traits and the strength of them. Sadly, many enter fields of work based on what Mom or Dad wanted, what their friends are doing, or what pays the most. Conversely, matching natural talents to roles is freeing and energizing to help people truly succeed, and assessments play an important role.
Recently, we’ve been exploring the power of identity for building confidence and success in life. Knowing our talents is an important part of human identity. Knowing yours can be powerful. Helping others understand theirs is an opportunity to help them accelerate their growth in a positive direction.
Insights from others. We all have self-doubts. They come at us at many angles and one of those is our abilities. Do we have what it takes? Do we have the talents to succeed? Most of us face those questions along the way and especially in the early years or when we’re embarking into something new. One of the best solutions to those doubts is the specific affirmation of others who “call out” our talents.
This is one of the great responsibilities of leaders, teammates, friends, and family members. When you specifically highlight and encourage someone’s talents, your confirmation is powerful to knock down self-doubt. You are giving a gift that you may never know how it played out, but you can be sure it lifted them higher. Please coach yourself to affirm others’ talents. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give.
I challenge you to reflect on your own life and recall the people who called out your talents and encouraged you. What has been the power those words have had on your life? That would be a story worth sharing.
Read the entire article on this topic – “Jumpstart Your Leadership Talents – Find Your Strengths”
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March 10, 2020
5 Primary Obstacles to Positive Accountability
A lack of positive accountability in personal and work relationships can be catastrophic for all involved. Want to know the 5 primary obstacles? This free infographic is a practical tool to understand the lack of accountability, the obstacles, the 4C’s of making accountability a regular part of honorable leadership.
Check out it and post your comments and experience too – thank you
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March 9, 2020
New Group Training – Engage with Honor
Did you know for teams that are more engaged and understand their role and value, there is substantially less staff turnover. The new “Engage with Honor Group Training Guide” can help train your entire team by learning the Courageous Accountability Model.
Learn more and download a free sample in the Leading with Honor Store –
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March 8, 2020
On This Day in Leadership History, March 8th
On this day in leadership history in 1953, a census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had quit farming over the last 2 years.
What’s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders actively adjust and adapt to changes around them while maintaining an immovable foundation of character and integrity. You can do it!
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March 6, 2020
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, March 6, 2020
“Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult.” – Dr Ferdinand Porsche
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March 5, 2020
Endorsement from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Special thanks to Dr. Kenneth Byrnes, Flight Department Chairman and Assistant Dean, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, for your kind words about the ‘Leading with Honor’ message –
“Lee’s inspirational keynote speech was extremely impactful and relevant! His incredible story of courage, honor, and leadership captured the minds and hearts of everyone in attendance. Lee’s wisdom on how to courageously engage in stressful situations was particularly relevant for our employees; there is no doubt that he left a deep impact on everyone in attendance!”
– Read about Speaking Services from Leading with Honor
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March 3, 2020
Coaching Clip: How to Ride the Current of Your Strongest Talents
How can you or your team members avoid the pain of natural talents being mis-matched to the wrong job? Lee’s coaching this month focuses specifically on identifying natural talents with the right job and how you, as an honorable leader, can help others do the same. The outcome is fulfillment, performance, results, and better relationships throughout the entire team or organization.
Please watch it below, and click to make comments and reactions.
NEW! The Debut of Lee and Hugh’s New Book
[image error]Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their personal stories and experience on how they’ve successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design.
“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” – Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change
“This is the book that I have longed for during my decades in managing talent. Having seen the positive impact of DNA Behavior on my teams, this is a must-read for leaders who desire to build strong teams by accelerating natural talents in an authentic and lasting way.” – Belva White, CPA, MBA, Vice President for Finance & Treasury, Emory University
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Recent Leadership Forsyth Event
Special thank you to the leaders at Leadership Forsyth here in the Atlanta Metropolitan area for allowing me to share my training and experiences with them. So grateful for their desire to lead with honor!
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